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Date:      Mon, 12 Jun 2006 17:14:32 +1000
From:      Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au>
To:        "John L.Utz III" <john@utzweb.net>
Cc:        freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FBSD 6.1 and Latitude C400 ACPI Keyboard issue
Message-ID:  <20060612071432.GE739@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <863bebxmyw.wl%john@utzweb.net>
References:  <863bebxmyw.wl%john@utzweb.net>

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On Sun, 2006-Jun-11 23:59:51 +0000, John L.Utz III wrote:
>If i boot said dell sans acpi i can use the 'Fn' stuff to access the bios and
>battery state and all that good stuff.
>
>but with acpi enabled, this isnt possible. has anybody figured out how to make this work?

My guess is that with ACPI enabled, the BIOS is returning the keypresses
as keycodes (you can verify this using, eg, xev) and expecting the OS to
do the rest.

Takanori Watanabe has already provided a different reply to this
question on -acpi.

-- 
Peter Jeremy



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